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Michelle Obama Is Ruining Barack's Re-Election Chance With Terrible Cookie Recipe
True or false: During a presidential election year, the wives of the nominees are asked to engage in a bake-off to determine who has the best cookie recipe. If you answered, FALSE, no way is that happening in 2012, you'd be dead wrong, my even mildly feminist friend. It's true. Since 1992 when Hillary Clinton made some remark about how she could've stayed home and baked cookies all day instead of working in a high-power law firm, the nominees' wives have been encouraged to show their affability and allegiance to middle America by engaging in this belittling custom. With that said, may I introduced to you Michelle Obama's chocolate chip cookies and Ann Romney's M&M concoction.
Let the hoary games begin.
Each wife (god, I can't even believe I'm typing this and that Michelle and Ann have been relegated to being called "wives") is asked to submit a recipe to Family Circus magazine. Then, readers are supposed to bake them at home and vote for their favorite on Family Circus' Facebook page.
Michelle's submission is Mama Kaye's recipe, which comes from Sasha and Malia's grandmother: white and dark chocolate chip cookies. Ann's entering her M&M cookies that her grandchildren "cannot resist."
They say that the bake-off winner's husband has won the election four out of the last five times (Cindy McCain is the exception; her butterscotch cookies beat Michelle's lemony ones), so if this contest is any indication of who's taking over the White House, Republicans should be pleased.
I gotta go with M&Ms over white and dark chocolate chip cookies any day of the week. White chocolate isn't even chocolate, it's basically just a mixture of butter and sugar. Come on, Michelle. Step it up. You couldn't have gone with a cream cheese brownie cookie or something? A lot's, evidently, at stake.
Ann Romney and her M&Ms for the win.
Thoughts on the cookies and/or the contest itself?
Photo via ClaraDon/Flickr
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calimom73
It's all in good fun I suppose, but I sure do hope that if there is ever a female presidential candidate that her husband has to enter the same contest.
Shandi80
No pureed brocolli or carrots in Mrs. Obama's recipe? I'm disappointed.
MandyRuth
Aredina
Did you bake these cookies and try both? Dont knock white and dark chocolate chip cookies until you try it. Ive made them before we called them "Chess cookies" because of the black and white chocolate chips, and they were awesome. Im not a big fan of M&M cookies anyway, but I before I judged which one was better I would at least bake them both and try them. Also it depends on YOUR baking skills on which one will be better anyway, unless you eat the ones they make themsevles. And while Im on here, whats wrong with both Michelle and Ann being called wives? Thats what they are. They are not husbands or servents, or even a concubine. They are wives!
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GlowWorm889
I don't care. If it's got chocolate, I'll eat it!
SaphiraJFire
how about chocolate and m&m's! lol
tsmspt
Well I have a funny story....In 2008 after Obama won the election I found the recipe for Michelle's Obama's cookies and made them for my kids. My twins were 7. They have significant LD and in order for them to remember anything you have to really make it multi-sensory. So I took them with me to vote (which they loved) and even though we didn't win at the polls we still needed cookies, right? So I made Michelle's cookies and they were the BEST cookies EVER! But my twins hated them. About a year later they were at a Speech evaluation and were asked who the President was. McKinley said, "I have no idea, but his wife makes horrible cookies."
Madcap
Marcie